Something different this week on Sinica: A selection of “This Week in China’s History” columns by James Carter, all narrated by Kaiser with a little interstitial music by Chunqiu (Spring & Autumn).
The columns:
- Not just a metaphor: Dragons of imperial China show us how people lived (1517)
- The ‘Empress of China’ and the beginning of U.S.-China trade (1784)
- The rise of Empress Dowager Cixi (1861)
- In the 7th century, a Chinese coup of Shakespearean proportions (626)
- Titanic’s six Chinese survivors tell a story that goes far beyond a shipwreck (1912)
- The problem with Mao’s ‘continuous’ revolution (1967)
- The Battle of Red Cliffs and the blurring of fact and fiction (208–209)
The music — snippets from:
- The Huntsman
- The Last Page (intro)
- The Subcelestial
- A Call from Afar
- Between the Mountains and the Sea
- Born of the Storm
- Born of the Storm (again)
- A New Day
- The Last Page (outro)
All these tracks and more are available on Spotify here or on YouTube here.
